Chapter 6175 Tusa's Value

Chapter 6175 Tusa's Value

After Ves ended his call with Saint Tusa, he tried his best not to grin like an unhinged madman.

He felt ecstatic!

Out of all of the draft designs that Master Benedict Cortez whipped up as possible evolutions of the Dark Zephyr, Tusa picked the one that provided the greatest benefit to Ves and the Larkinson Clan!

"Hehehehe..."

Although Tusa Billingsley-Larkinson was the first member of the clan to advance to the rank of ace pilot, he would soon be joined by others.

Isobel Kotin had already broken through, and there were many high-tier expert pilots that just needed to take one step further in order to reach the same rank.

Although not even Ylvaine could predict the timing of pilot breakthroughs, the Larkinson Clan nurtured enough peak ace candidates to be able to 'win the jackpot' at least once or twice in the upcoming campaign.

This was not a certain bet, but Ves did not think that Tusa and Isobel were the only pilots in the Larkinson Clan that could undergo apotheosis for a second time.

The other high-tier expert pilots possessed their own strengths!

They just needed a single powerful opportunity to push themselves past the threshold. Whether that was receiving an updated high-tier expert mech or fighting an extremely intensive battle during the imminent alien offensive, Ves had already formulated a few plans based on the assumption of specific individual breakthroughs.

If the future matched his predictions, Saint Tusa's role in the Larkinson Clan would automatically change from a frontline leader to a flanking supporter.

This was what fit Tusa best. His Dark Zephyr functioned best when the light skirmisher was not the most ostentatious presence on the battlefield.

"It would have been great if Ark broke through and came back to the clan." Ves sighed.

Ark was by far the best candidate to take a leading position in any large mech force. His domain and his combat system all hinged on becoming the brightest star in the field.

Still, Ves could work with others if necessary. Jannzi Larkinson, Joshua Larkinson and Casella Ingvar all possessed good leadership or inspirational qualities. Each of them had the potential to elevate the Larkinson Clan's premier fighting forces in different ways.

As harsh as it sounded, Ves did not include Tusa on that very short list.

It was not that Ves had no faith in Tusa's leadership abilities. He could certainly step up if there was no better alternative. He was just not suitable for this prominent role.

If not for the fact that Saint Isobel Kotin's distorted breakthrough and traumatic injuries caused her mental stability to drop off a cliff, Ves would have already prepared a plan to turn her into the standard bearer of the Larkinson Clan!

In any case, Tusa's decision to adopt the Banisher Edition was fantastic news to Ves!

The Dark Zephyr with the power to exile troublesome enemies to another dimension had many useful applications, but Ves mainly prized one use in particular.

"Loss mitigation!"

Yes!

Ves did not naively assume that his forces would be able to win every battle in the future.

The Larkinson Clan became stronger, but the enemies his forces were expected to confront were growing stronger as well.

Part of that is due to the technological and organizational improvements made by his opponents.

The rabble that the Larkinsons previously looked down on in the past was slowly getting better and better. All of the trash had already been wiped out, but that meant that the second echelon forces that remained were much better. The expeditionary fleet should no longer have it as easy as before.

While Ves expected to make a bit of progress on that in the near future, he was still on the lookout for cheaper alternatives.

The Banisher Edition may be able to serve as that cheaper alternative!

What he did not mention to Tusa was that the Dark Zephyr did not necessarily have to use the resonating ability associated with Erlemin on enemy units.

What if the Banisher Edition of the ace mech exiled a friendly probe into a random dimension?

That probe would enter into a completely different facet of reality, record a lot of useful data before subsequently coming back to the material realm!

As long as the probe survived the abnormal environment of another dimension, it might be able to provide enough data to skip the need to employ the Dimension Telescope!

In fact... as long as the Banisher Edition gained more power and control over the banishing process, Ves could even render the Dimension Telescope redundant!

Forget about investing thousands of AP into this expensive device.

As long as the Dark Zephyr was able to produce the same results without spending a single Ascension Point, only a fool would commit to the more expensive option!

As Ves continued to daydream about how the Banisher Edition might be able to facilitate his dream of plundering lots of unique and valuable resources from other dimensions, he soon reminded himself that this was not the time to think about expansion.

Instead, he needed to spend more time on making sure his clan was able to weather the incoming storm.

"What is taking the aliens so long?" Ves briefly frowned.

The big offensive that everyone was afraid of had yet to kick off. This should be good news to red humanity as it gave everyone more time to prepare.

However, the Red Cabal was not stupid. The phase whales may possess alien thinking that caused them to make decisions that did not make immediate sense to humans, but they had all proven to be rational and self-interested enough when their core interests came under threat.

This suggested that the native aliens needed to wait until they completed their own preparations. Whatever schemes they had in mind were bound to deal a nasty blow to red humanity.

"There's nothing I can do." Ves sighed.

He had grown faster and more powerful than any mech designer of his generation in the Red Ocean.

He was the model of a successful pioneer that had managed to rise up by taking advantage of the opportunities of the new frontier.

He even became the catalyst to the formation of a new hegemonic organization that had the potential to stand equal with the Red Association and the Red Fleet!

However, Ves did not let these accomplishments go over his head. He knew quite well that he firmly remained in the palm of the hands of the true bigshots of red humanity.

Ves was quite sober in his realization that he was still a chess piece as opposed to a chess player.

He only managed to promote himself from a pawn into a bishop or something.

Regardless, a chess piece remained a chess piece. Ves had little actual agency in his ability to influence the strategic direction of human civilization.

At most, he could use his most radical inventions to slightly nudge red humanity in one direction or another.

This was why he quickly put the matter of the Red Cabal's schemes aside. It was not his responsibility to foil the plans of the native aliens.

He had better ways to spend his time. One of them was to contact Ketis to discuss the withdrawal of some of the combat forces in the Reticula Corein System.